Sending File through email

[Ajai]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me the command to send logs (files) through e mail in UNIX.Assume file is residing in UNIX dir.


Thanks
Rampreet

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

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Please go here and fix your display name up, pronto. Thanks, pardner!

[Lewin Chan]

Well, on Linux that depends on which MTA you have installed. There are quite a few choices I think, sendmail/postfix etc etc. Commonly sendmail is installed for the local user to run from the commandline. Here's an example of using that...

(
echo "To: Me <[e-mail]>"
echo "From: You <[e-mail]>"
echo "Subject: Here's the file I really wanted to send you"
echo
cat the_file_you_wanted_to_send
)> /usr/lib/sendmail -t

So basically here, you are using cat to print the file you wanted to send to the screen, this is redirected to the sendmail program

The -t option on sendmail is to "read message for recipients" so it parses the To/From/ lines for that info. You don't have to use it in that fashion of course, you can specify all those things on the commandline.